Learning with Community

“Community-based education begins with people and their immediate reality. Above all, it allows them to become meaningfully involved in shaping their own futures through the school and other agencies in their community”

                                                                                                 (Corson, 1998, p. 240).

 

Connecting with the Five Rs

  • Relevance: How is this lesson relevant to local communities?​

  • Respect: How is this lesson acknowledging the complexity and impact of historical educational approaches for community engagement?​

  • Reciprocity: How is this learning giving back to the community we are learning from?​

  • Responsibility: How is this lesson listening to and supporting communities’ priorities, as well as consulting and collaborating with them?

  • Relationships: How is this lesson engaging in respectful relations and appropriate ways to support local communities?

 

Reading: 

David Corson (1998) Community-based Education for Indigenous Cultures, Language Culture and Curriculum, 11:3, 238-249, https://doi.org/10.1080/07908319808666555

 

   Pedagogical Example: 

Building Bridges with Aboriginal Communities by BC Principals’ & Vice-Principals’ Association https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYyj1y3p1g

 

 

 

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